When this Art Nouveau edifice was constructed during the 1900s it was actually in the suburbs to the west of the Old Town. The City Hall is an indelible part of KielвЂ™s skyline thanks to its 106-metre tower. Source: Arne List / flickr Kieler Rathaus Lined up are a fireboat, a lifeboat launched in 1944 and finally a buoy tender, the Bussard, from 1966. The museum has its own dock where a few historical vessels are moored. There are logbooks, maps, model ships, navigation instruments and a cross-section of the Seehund midget submarine from the Second World War. One exhibition here charts the construction of the Kiel Canal, which was completed in 1895 and connected the North Sea with the Baltic. The interior has been whitewashed and in this airy space is an exhibition on KielвЂ™s fishing and seafaring history. Right on the water, the cityвЂ™s Gothic Revival fish auction house was repurposed as a maritime museum in 1978. Source: RГјdiger Stehn / flickr Schifffahrtsmuseum Kiel On land thereвЂ™s live music, an international market on Rathausplatz, and street performers and entertainment kids throughout the city centre and along the waterfront. More than 100 historic vessels dock in the city and many welcome visitors aboard. The are 2000 events packed into the week, including boat races for a host of categories setting off from the Schilksee harbour, where the sailing events for the 1972 Olympics were staged.

Going back to 1882, Kiel Week is a Volksfest at its heart, and thereвЂ™s no better time to soak up the cityвЂ™s maritime atmosphere and get some amazing photographs.

The worldвЂ™s biggest sailing event kicks off during the last week of June, bringing millions of visitors and some 4,000 ships to the city from across Germany and abroad. LetвЂ™s have a look at the best things to do in Kiel: 1. Museums and attractions in Kiel tend to have a seafaring theme, whether itвЂ™s a preserved U-Boat, lighthouse, monumental naval memorial or maritime museum. The city is also at the eastern lock of the busiest artificial waterway on the planet, the Kiel Canal, tying the North Sea to the Baltic.ДЄt Kiel Week in June thousands of competitors set sail for the city to compete in the largest regatta in the world, together with a big party that sweeps across the whole city.

That is a huge natural harbour, just the spot for GermanyвЂ™s Navy to dock its Baltic fleet. That вЂњthe Redeemer will come to ZionвЂќ and not delay.The capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel is a maritime city in the 17-kilometre Kiel Fjord. Grandmother, give thanks above and say a prayer Salutes through the window and lights the menorah The descendant Akiva, named for his great-grandfather In 5770 the menorah stands in the window once again So the flag says, but our candle answers and declares It challenges the party flag that doesnвЂ™t yet rule In 5692 the Menorah is in exile, it stands in the window On Hanukkah 5770 (2009), their great-grandson, Akiva Mansbach, dressed in the uniform of the Israel Defence Forces saluted and read out a poem written in Hebrew in a similar vein to that written by Rachel Posner. Some eighty years later, Akiva and Rachel PosnerвЂ™s descendants continue to light Hanukkah candles using the same menorah that was brought to Israel from Kiel.

The Posner family left Germany in 1933 and arrived in Eretz Israel in 1934. Before their departure, Rabbi Posner was able to convince many of his congregants to leave as well and indeed most managed to leave for Eretz Israel or the United States. When the tension and violence in the city intensified, the Rabbi responded to the pleas of his community to flee with his wife Rachel and their three children and make their way to Eretz Israel. The event took place under heavy police guard and was reported by the local press. Akiva Posner, Doctor of Philosophy from Halle-Wittenberg University, served as the last Rabbi of the community of Kiel, Germany before the Holocaust.ДЄfter Rabbi Posner publicized a protest letter in the local press expressing indignation at the posters that had appeared in the city: вЂњEntrance to Jews ForbiddenвЂќ, he was summoned by the chairman of the local branch of the Nazi party to participate in a public debate. The date of 1932, inscribed on the back, most likely refers to the date the picture was developed. On the back of the photograph, Rachel Posner wrote in German (translated here): Akiva Posner, took this photo of the family Hanukkah menorah from the window ledge of the family home looking out on to the building across the road decorated with Nazi flags. During Hanukkah 1931, Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Dr.

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